काव्यमीमांसा (महाकवि राजशेखर - कवि-रहस्य एवं देश-विभाग सटीक)

300 APPENDIX I.
Greek historians as Harmatalia, a corrupt
or foreign pronunciation of the Sanskrit
word Brāhmaṇasthala. Brāhmaṇavāha
seems to be the Hindu name of the city
which the Muhamadans afterwards called
Brāhmanābād. It was situated on the
eastern reaches of the river Indus. Its
present position seems to be in the neigh-
bourhood of Hala in Sindh at two-thirds
of the distance from Multan to the mouth
of the Indus and it lies parallel to Hala.
Here, the ruins of a large city have been
excavated recently, where various pre-
historic remains have been discovered.
This ruined city lies at a distance of 47
miles to the north-east of Hyderabad, and
28 miles north-east of Hala. The place is
now known as Bambhraka-thul or the
‘Ruined Tower’ and this name is derived
from a broken brick tower which is the
only building now standing. It was un-
doubtedly one of the oldest cities in India;
the historian Bilādhura writing a thousand
years ago calls it ‘Brāhmaṇābād-al atiqah’
or Brāhmaṇābād the ancient. (see Cun-
ningham’s A. G. pp. 306-318; Map. ix.,
and Ibid. Notes p. 691).
123. Bhādānaka ...Rājaśekhara does not give its exact location
but mentions that the people of Bhādānaka
talked a language which had an admixture
of Apabhraṁśa like the people of Maru
and the Ṭakkas. Bhādānaka, therefore,
appears to be the same as the Bhādiya or
Bhādiyanagara of the Pāli books. Mr. N.
L. Dey identifies this Bhādiya with Bha-
daria eight miles to the south of Bha-
galpur in Bihar. Mahāvīra, the last Jain
Tīrthaṅkara is said to have visited this